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This paper reports on the Fips parser, a multilingual constituent parser that has been developed over the last two decades. After a brief historical overview of the numerous modifications and adaptations made to this system over the years, we provide a description of its main characteristics. The linguistic framework that underlies the Fips system has been much influenced by Generative Grammar, but drastically simplified in order to make it easier to implement in an efficient manner. The parsing procedure is a one pass (no preprocessing, no postprocessing) scan of the input text, using rules to build up constituent structures and (syntactic) interpretation procedures to determine the dependency relations between constituents (grammatical functions, etc.), including cases of long-distance dependencies. The final section offers a description of the rich lexical database developed for Fips. The lexical model assumes two distinct levels for lexical units: words, which are inflected forms of lexical units, and lexemes, which are more abstract units, roughly corresponding to a particular reading of a word. Collocations are defined as an association of two lexical units (lexeme or collocation) in a specific grammatical relation such as adjective-noun or verb-object. |
